Jaikus

BORICUA PASSPORT evokes the complex in-betweeness that represents the contemporary Puerto Rican condition as filtered through the prism of poet J.L. Torres’ life experience. For many Puerto Ricans the sense of being unhomed—having a homeland but not really feeling at home anywhere—is a real lived experience determined by a persisting and unsettled colonial condition. In BORICUA PASSPORT, Torres, screams, shouts, rejoices, celebrates, tickles and challenges with a poetry sprinkled with Spanish/Spanglish that is immediate and urgent. His is a testimony to the indefatigable Puerto Rican...

Este libro son versos que alimentan un canto a la libertad en el mundo de la poesía. El poeta sabe respirar y emocionar dominando los sentimientos, como el agua que al correr, libremente lo invade todo con evasión de serenidad. El autor con inspiración a paraíso abierto, nos llena de metáforas de pasión e intensidad que nos hace vibrar, por su audacia y fraternidad de saber hacer tesoros con palabras de grandeza y atrevimiento, que hacen que la belleza y el encanto lleno de plenitud, utilice la ironía con la armonía, tratando de evadir la revelación de momentos de algo que nos llena...

La poesa nunca morir a travs del tiempo porque los humanos somos romanticos ya de nacimiento, si acaso solo la dejamos dormida dentro del alma, dejando la mente en retozo, porque luego vuelve! con ms bros .

These poems are about Love, Life and Living. The world is seen as a beautiful, complex and diverse place. These poems provide a picturesque view of the world. Love is beautiful when the going is good and terrible when it goes bad, leading to heartaches, nervous breakdown and sometimes even death. It can make or mare a man and has been the reason for the downfall of some notable successful men. Life is mysterious. Full of ups and down and has different stages which I prefer to call part 1, part 2 and for some people, part 3. The only constant thing in life is change and as each day comes with...